St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-02
HER EXPERIENCES.
A Red-Headed Girl Tells the Re-
suit of Her Observations.

New York Evening sun.
The girl with the reddiSt hair in New
York works in Macy's, on the second
floor. She lives in Third avenue, near
Sixteenth street. She is vivacious and
observant, and don't mind a bit being
told that her head is red.
1--we read a good bit in the papers
lately" she remarked to a journalistic
friend recently, "about the red-headed
girl and the white horse, and about the
funny coincidence between them. Now,
| am a red-headed girl myself here she
rOguiShly arched her eyebrows, and |
can tell you some right queer things l
have noticed myself. They are true,
too, and that's more than you can say
about One-half that's written up" look
ing wise and reprOachful.
Il have noticed" she continued, "that
/ hardly ever meet white horse COM
ing toward NE. Nine-tenthS of all the
white horses see on the streets, when
| am walking to or from my work, are
either going i'll my direction or they are
passing along the cross streets. Yes
terday | walked from the store along
Thirteenth street to Third avenue and
up Third avenue, and during the week
| counted fifty-ive white horses.
Only three of them were coming
toward me from an opposite direction.
Two of the three were hitched to one
wagon. pass more white horses on
Sundays than on any other day. | us
ually see more white horses on rainy
days than on clear days. I've kept a
pretty close watch for white horses for
the past six months, Just for the fun of
the thing, and because when /
started l didn't believe in the
white-hOrse theory at all. l be-
lieve it now, but | can't begin to eX-
plain it. The funniest thing of all is
that every time | put on red Jersey
most of the white horses i meet are in
pairs. l have been in Central park Oh
many Sundays the past summer. and
have seen fewer white horses there in a
whole afternoon than | can meet any
day on my way home. l guess red
headed girls don't go out to the park
very strong. ~
There are lots of little circumstances
| have observed about the white horse.
| kept count of the white horses | saw
OH Broadway, between Fourteenth
street and Twenty-thiTd street, in July.
August and September. and the total
number was i, l53. You might think
that when two red-headed girls walk 10
gether there would be more white
horses in sight, but don't think this is
the case. Several times have been in
company with friend who is employed
in Ridley's who has very red hair, but we
wouldn't see any more white horses
than if | had been alone. There is one
thing | want to say about the white
horses. The real white horses are
scarce, and am sure from my own OBJ
servatiOn that the genuine white horse
doesn't appear in the vicinity of one
tenth of the number of red-headed
girls. The horses that are called white
horses are generally irOn-gray or mot
tied gray horses, of medium or dark
shades. The real white horses, have
heard, coincide with something else;
but, anyway, they won't begin to match
the red-headed girls.
Il have been told that white horse
will follow a red-headed girl. l don't
believe it. No white horse ever fol
lowed me. They don't appear to notice
me, and / am quite sure they don't
know anything about the stories in the
papers. They say that red-headed girls
are fond of white horses. This is fool
iSh. | like black horses. My friend in
Ridley's prefers a dark bay horse.
never met red-headed girl who cared
for white horse any more than for any
other colored horse"